Originally posted by Slick
With adults maybe, but kids aren't understanding when it comes to things like this. You wouldn't have been beaten up by adults because of your deformity but do you honestly think it would have made a difference if a teacher had given them a talk saying "there's nothing wrong with it etc."?
I think if a teacher got involved it would depend on the way the teacher handled the situation i.e. 'showed a film or diagrams of why i walked on my tiptoes' perhaps that might have made some of the kids understand that i could not help the way i walked.
It must be a lot harder for gay children to fit in with other children but wouldnt it make them a more rounded individual to have different types of people and sexual orientations around them than going to a school where they interact with children who are different from the norm and have been bullied, how can we get used to each other if we are all separate, how can we understand there pain if we have never met children like them when we were at school, because they were separated from us?